| Is Microsoft's new Bing search engine better than Google? (Mail and Guardian) Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, went live on Monday 1 June. Although the core index is the same, Bing is not just a rebranding of Microsoft Live Search, but has new features – including instant preview of websites and videos, automatic categorisation of search results, and Best Match results with deep links. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Stinky Teddy: A Cool Real-Time Search Engine With a Rather Odd Name (ReadWriteWeb) At our ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit in Mountain View last week, we came across Stinky Teddy , a new real-time meta-search engine developed by David Hradtke . Before starting this project, Hradtke worked as a physicist at the University of California Berkeley Space Sciences Lab. Hradtke named his new project after his daughter's "trusted (and abused) stuffed bear." Stinky Teddy, which Hradtke ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
China to punish hackers, says no Google complaint (Reuters via Yahoo! News) China has pledged to punish hackers who attacked Google if there is evidence to prove it, but said it has yet to receive any complaint from the world's top search engine. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Will Zynga Deal Help Google Zero In on Social Gaming? Google has reportedly invested a significant sum of money -- between US$100 million and $200 million -- in social games company Zynga in order to build out a Google Games offering for the search engine giant. The investment, which was reportedly made by Google and not Google Ventures, is a highly strategic move for the company. ecommercetimes.com |
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 12, 2010 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. seroundtable.com |